Matthias Bannert

• current occupation: data scientist / software developer @ETH Zurich
• occasional consultant
• studied economics @UniKN, PhD @ETHZ: partly economics, mostly methodology + stats
• CTO of Swiss startup fanpictor from 2012-2014
• open source software projects: timeseriesdb, tstools, dropR, RAdwords

# listen - forget
# see - remember
# do - understand

• Day 1: Organize
  • Introduction
  • Data Generating Processes
  • Types of Data
  • Manage and Archive
• Day 2: Process and Communicate
  • Visualization
  • Methodology

You Draw It! (NY Times)

• download automatically
• read spreadsheet
• process
• visualize

• create report
• dynamic figures & tables
• html, pdf, docx

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

• R Interpreter
• R Studio IDE / R Studio Server
• CRAN Repository /w 10K+ packages
• Community: stackoverflow, Mailinglist, …